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"The yale president must be a yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the ultimate word on every subject under the sun from how to handle the Russians to why undergraduates riot in the spring. Profound with a wit that bubbles up and brims over in a cascade of brilliance. You may have guessed who the leading candidate is, but there is a question about him Is God a yale man" »Wilmarth S. Lewis
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"Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied." »Edmund S. Morgan
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a yale degree." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"If all the girls who attended the yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." »Dorothy Parker
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"yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention." »Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity." »Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology." »Clive James
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"The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it. (at the university of Salford)" »Prince Phillip
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"university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." »Henry Kissinger
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools." »Doris Lessing
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." »Flannery O'Connor
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"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter
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"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education." »George Bernard Shaw
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"It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it." »Sen O'Faolin
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""I, on the other hand, have a degree from the university of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me." »Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles." »Paul Fussell
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"I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'" »Anthony Lake
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"The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in." »Robert J. Kibbee
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see." »John Masefield
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"A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr
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"Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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